[ale] Useradd Replacement or Upgrade

[Tejus Parikh]

Hrm, looking through the comments on top of the 'useradd' wrapper  
shell script it says:


      56 # v1.05 - 04/01/03
      57 #       * Advise & prevent users from creating logins with  
'.' characters
      58 #         in the user name. <sw>

Which makes me think that the behavior you're after was explicitly  
disallowed for a reason.  I wonder if it has anything to do with  
potentially funky behavior from chown?

Tejus

Quoting Bob Kruger <bkruger at mindspring.com>:

> In using Slackware 10.x, I've noticed that I can still not use the   
> "useradd" command to add a new user with a period in their login.  I  
>  can manually edit the passwd and shadow files to get new users with  
>  a period in the username started, but that is a bit cumbersome and   
> tedious.
>
> Does anyone know of a replacement for useradd or possibly and   
> upgrade that allows you to add new users that have a period in the   
> username?  I would prefer source code, but if there is a working   
> binary already compiled, great.
>
> V/r
>
> Bob
>
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